TV series
Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge
2005 · 1 season
A sober, globe-spanning documentary that informs more than it thrills, mixing historical reenactments with present-day stories of illness and hard-won progress.
- Created by
- Gail Willumsen, Rob Whittlesey
- Starring
- James Flynn
- Overview
- From vaccines to antibiotics, clean water to nutrition, bio-terror threats to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the six-part series Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge tells the compelling stories of global health challenges and successes. Employing both historical dramatic sequences and poignant current documentary stories, the series showcases key milestones in public health history, such as the eradication of smallpox, alongside modern and future challenges, including SARS, a potential global flu pandemic and recovery from the Asian tsunami catastrophe.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Survival, science, politics, class
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Gail Willumsen, Rob Whittlesey
- Starring
- James Flynn
